Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

Page 237.--Patent to John and James McCoy, 5th September, 1762, 320 acres on Mossey Creek. (Note: Mossey Creek is a tributary of the Shenandoah River).

Page 415.--24th March, 1767. James ( ) McCoy, of Roan County, North Carolina, to John McCoy, of Augusta County, £30, 160 acres on Mossey Creek, part of 320 acres patented to said James and John McCoy, 25th September, 1762, David Ralstones line. Teste: John Campbell, Joseph Malcome, Elizabeth Campbell, Elizabeth McNight. Delivered: John McCoy, 9th November, 1767.

Page 59.--17th November, 1767. John Campbell and Elizabeth to John McCay (s/b. McCoy), £100, 130 acres, part of 320 acres patented to John and James McCay and afterwards conveyed by John McCay to John Campbell 19th August, 1766, on Mossey Creek, Ralestone's line. Teste: James Stevenson, James Campbell, Elizabeth McKnight. Delivered: Joseph Malcom, 14th November, 1772.

Page 298.--27th Setember, 1765. John McCoy and James McCoy to Joseph Malcom, £30, 160 acres on Mossey Creek, the lower end of the place this said John and James McCoy lives on; David Ralstone's land, patented to John and James, 25th September, 1762. Teste: Jacob Gallespie, John and Alexander Malcom. Delivered: Joseph Malcom, 14th November, 1772.

Page 4.--19th August, 1766. John McCoy and Sarah ( ) to John Campbell, £100, 130 acres, part of 320 acres patented to John and his brother James McCoy, 25th September 1762, on Mossey Creek, Ralstone's line. Teste: John Malcom, John Archer, John Davidson. Delivered: John McCoy, 9th November, 1767.

Page 527.--14th November, 1772. John McCoy and Sarah ( ) to Abel Griffith, on Mossey Creek, part of 320 acres patented to John McCoy and James McCoy, 25th September, 1762, and since conveyed by James to John, 24th March, 1767. Teste: David Stephenson, Evan Griffith, Joseph Malcom. Page 209.--14th November, 1772. John McCoy to Abel Griffith. Privy examination of Sarah, wife of John, 25th December, 1772.

In the name of God Amen this 28th day of April 1779 I John McCoy of the County of Greenbrier, being weak and sick of body but of perfect Memory blessed be God and calling to mind that it is appointed for all men once to die do make this my Last Will and Testament in Manner and Form following, hereby revoking and disannulling any Will or Wills by me heretofore made and I do hereby appoint my well beloved Wife Sarah, and Wm. Hunter Cavandish the Sole Executors of this my last Will.

Im Primus I bequeath my Soul to God who gave it in humble Hopes of a blessed Immortality thru them Merits of Christ my Savior and my body to the Earth there to be buried in a Christian manner at the Discretion of my Executors, and for what worldly goods it hath pleases God to give me. I dispose in manner following.

Item I Will that so much of my stock of horses be sold and the money arising from the sale thereof after paying my Debts be Equally divided amongst my children so soon as they shall severally attain to years of Discretion excepting out of said stock such horses and will be necessary to work the plantation . and for my Stocks of Cattle and Sheep I Will that they be also sold and the Money be divided as aforesaid reserving out of them such as may be needful for the Maintenance of my Family at the discretion of my Executors.

And my lands I Will that they be reserved until my son James shall attain the age of twenty-one, at which time I Will that the lands be valued by - Three judicious Persons, to be chosen by said Executors and if by said son shall pay unto my several children the valuation thereof equally divided amongst them in that case I Will that he have the said lands otherwise I Will that they be sold and the money be divided as aforesaid.

Records of John McCoy in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's Augusta County Records:(Note; some of the records past 1779 appear to be of another (younger) John McCoy, perhaps a son or nephew).

Vol. 1 - 1750, December 12th--Jean McCay, 400, on Mossy Creek, where she lives; Jno. Makam security for rights. 6th April, 1753, John McCoy entered three rights for his part of said entry, being the upper. (Note: is Jean McCay possibly the mother of John?).

Information on John McCoy

From "The History of West Virginia, Old and New", Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, Pg. 390 & 391:

John McCoy, the pioneer, married Miss Sarah Oliver, a daughter of Aaron Oliver, an immigrant from Holland, who married a daughter of Colonel Harrison of Rockingham County, Virginia. The children born to John McCoy and Sarah Oliver, his wife, were as follows: Robert, Oliver, William, John, Benjamin, Joseph and James and four daughters, Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah and Jemima. William McCoy, the congressman, married as his first wife Elizabeth McCoy, and she bore him a son, William, who died in service as a Confederate officer. The second wife of William McCoy was Mary J. Moomau, who bore him the following children: Margaret C., who is unmarried and lives at Franklin; Caroline H., who married William H. Boggs, is deceased and so is her husband; Mary V., who married William A. Campbell and died, as did her husband; John, who became the father of William McCoy, of this review; Pendleton, who married Catherine McMechen, and lived and died in the Franklin community, but his widow is residing at Moorefield, West Virginia; Lucy, who is the widow of Frank Anderson, resides at Franklin; and Alice Virginia, who died at Franklin, married Charles Chamberlain, now a resident of Salida, Colorado.

Information on children from "Highland County, Virginia, Genealogies of Pioneer Families":